By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

Book Information

This text is for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in contemporary English, especially those whose primary area of interest is English as a second language, primary or secondary-school education, English stylistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, or speech pathology. The emphasis is on empirical facts of English rather than any particular theory of linguistics; the text does not assume any background in language or linguistics. In this newly revised edition numerous example sentences are taken from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. A full glossary of key terms, an additional chapter on pedagogy and new sections on cognitive semantics and politeness have been added. Other changes include: completely updated print references; web links to sites of special interestand relevance; and a revised, reader-friendly layout. A companion website that includes a complete workbook with self-testing exercises and a comprehensive list of web links accompanies the book. The website can be found at the following address: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.156.workbook

Students completing the text and workbook will acquire: a knowledge of thesound system of contemporary English; an understanding of the formation ofEnglish words; a comprehension of the structure of both simple and complexsentence in English; a recognition of complexities in the expression of meaning; anunderstanding of the context and function of use upon the structure of thelanguage; and an appreciation of the importance of linguistic knowledge to the teaching of English to first and second-language learners. Laurel J. Brinton is Professor of English Language at the University ofBritish Columbia.

Donna M. Brinton is Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of SouthernCalifonia's Rossier School of Education.

The Linguistic Structure of Modern English is a revised edition of TheStructure of Modern English by Laurel J. Brinton (2000)(http://benjamins.com/catalog/z.94).